Stories Quotes - Page 203

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

Story is what's most important.

Stories. They're everywhere...You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore)

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.

The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.

Disney's really incredible on story.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

I just want my stories to be mine.

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

I know a lot of great success stories of those who were excellent problem-solvers because they had found a need that they could fill well. As a result, they built organizations around them and those organizations had belief systems that could be described as a form of leadership.

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?